Jesus and the Buddha: Meditation, Prayer, and the Human Potential

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Bushi is a name well known throughout The Wild Goose Festival with his beginnings as a novice Buddhist monk at Shakori Hills, North Carolina. Former Christian minister-turn-Zen Buddhist monk, Bushi Yamato Damashii knows how to connect the dots, and helps the Christian to understand the ‘human/mental element of faith”. Bushi returns to WGF 2018 and shares Jesus and the Buddha: Meditation, Prayer, and the Social Potential of Being the Change. This is a serious conversation on liberating oneself of the mental, religious, and social contaminations that devour and stagnate our abilities to be happy, socially altruistic, and compassionate beings. Bushi will offer both guided and independent meditation experiences and dialogue for the attendees. Daily walking meditations will be available with Bushi and other monks present. Participants will engage in mindfulness and compassion activities throughout the WGF.

Bushi Yamato Damashii

Bushi Yamato Damashii, born Torrence Marquis Ramsey, is an authorized Dharma teacher, mystic, and Abbot at Daishin Buddhist Temple Monastery in Thomasville, North Carolina. He is a student of Lama Rod Owen, and Lama Justin von Bujdoss (Repa Dorje Odzer) under whom Bushi practices Vajrayana Buddhism in the Repa tradition. Bushi is a former Christian minister who has studied and teaches what he calls The Wisdom and Practical Parallels of Christianity and Buddhism as a method for healing human suffering for twenty five years. Now as a Buddhist teacher, he returns to the Goose with Wisdom of both Jesus and the Buddha that may enhance your depth of what it means to be human in the body of Christ.